Design, development, and evaluation of visual aids for communicating prescription drug instructions to nonliterate patients in rural Cameroon
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2020, Patient Education and CounselingCitation Excerpt :Alternatively, labels with more complex instructions (such as variation D) which required more mental steps were not well-understood and better health literacy was required for better understanding. This research aligns with previous research that shows that labels which provide explicit instructions for dose times are interpreted with improved comprehension compared with instructions which omit this [20,21]. That is, instructing participants when to take medications at particular points in the day (variation B) led to better comprehension than labels mentioning number of times per day (variation A/C) or hourly intervals (variation D).
Pharmaceutical pictograms: A model for development and testing for comprehension and utility
2013, Research in Social and Administrative PharmacyCitation Excerpt :The difficulty of pictogram interpretation occurs even in those studies that show a positive effect on comprehension of medication information. A few projects have evaluated the impact of patient counseling with medication information materials containing pictograms on adherence.43,45,65–68 These materials with visual aids appear to increase slightly adherence behaviors.
The lesson of Monsieur Nouma: Effects of a culturally sensitive communication tool to improve health-seeking behavior in rural Cameroon
2012, Patient Education and CounselingCitation Excerpt :Such tools improve the emotional impact, recall of information, and adherence to treatment in different contexts, including in African patients [reviewed in Ref. [19]]. The impact seems greatest in low-literacy populations, as demonstrated for correct drug administration and compliance in non-literate women in Cameroon [20]. In the present study we hypothesized that in order to address the first two conditions (to identify individuals at risk and to promote care-seeking behavior), two interlinked interventions would be needed.